On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Hector Oron <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! I did not know they used emdebian.
yeah, my friend has one (the maplin's version), and the cnmlifestyle.com web site / debian archive has xterm on it, as a .deb download. once we got that running, i could work out why one of the games wasn't working, they missed a symlink out to /usr/lib/libsdl1.2.0.so blah blah the usual silly stuff. so this stuff's really taking off, it's just that... well... we're not being consulted about it! :) > Anyway I got one similar > netbook [1] and I found a similar version (same CPU) but free "Ben > Nanonote" [2]. yes well cool idea. tracking those links... http://www.g-netbook.com/GL-780F.html HA! well cool, thank you hector, that's exactly the sort of machines i'm looking for - you are a star. weird 1024x576 screen, never ever heard of a 1024x576 LCD before, but... thank you. > Again, is free *ware about cracking and reverse engineering? > Get free hardware to run your free software ! :-) :) if it exists, and passes my "good enough" criteria, yes. otherwise, i'll keep working on the "slightly" free to turn it _into_ free. >> remember: i've been there with reverse-engineering of PXA27x HTC >> smartphones, using WINCE (HARET.EXE and gnuharet.exe) and it took up >> about eighteen months of my life. having a truly free/libre OS >> already on those machines would have made a big damn difference. > > Sure, by the time I guess there was no openmoko/n770/n8xx, that would > probably save you some months of headaches. this was 2 years before then; the openmoko was (is) a failure, only has GPRS not even EDGE, and the n770 and n8xx series never had or intended to have 3G. and the n900 is prohibitively expensive. i deliberately went after the HTC smartphones because they had 3G. there didn't exist and still really doesn't exist an affordable open (as in community-open) commodity-hardware 3G smartphone / MID. the gizmodo flow G1 (G1.5?) is still around $EUR 400. > I GOOG we trust?! :-) :) > But, yes, we hope companies using open/free source release their > software as part of their license agreement (BSD/GPL/...), but that is > not happening just yet. (it is even worst on Asian contries). patience. it'll get there. p.s. thank you hector. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
